SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #387

[marilyn traber]

> 1.  So when people went out for a picnic they deliberately didn't
> choose an area with a spring close by?  I think that bubbly water is
> perfectly reasonable under certain circumstances.

in period, most people probably didnt go on picnics, per se-too much
like real life[lol] seroiusly, except for the ladies perhaps going a
maying or for herbs, and hunting parties I think the closest they came
to picniking was eating while schlepping from point a to point b.

> 2.  I'm sure you're all going to sit on me for this, but my favourite
> knife is a Mundial, which doesn't even complain after cutting up a
> whole sheep into manageable bits.

Though I am sure the sheep wasn't particularly pleased...lol. We knack
sheep/poultry with my 6"sabatier and the 10" wussie, with judicious
application of a saws-all for the really bony bits.

> 3.  Do people think that a small amount of tact is called for
> occasionally?  I mean, I know that there are half-a-dozen or so
> 'important' people on the list, and the rest of us aren't, but do we
> really have to be squashed quite so heavily?  Self-esteem isn't
> always that easy to come by.

so, squash back. When a friend of mine was contacted by the FBI during
one of my clearance checks, he was asked if he thought that I could be
pressured into doing something, and after he picked himself up off te
floor, he said that if there was going to be any forcing-I was probably
going to be the one doing it![thanks mark, i think]

> 5.  The only eel we've had to deal with (and it lasted about 6 meals
> for the pair of us) was not electric in any way (are there multiple
> species of eel, apart from fresh/salt water?  Maybe I should ask my
> zoologist husband).  It did, however, die very hard.  We ended up
> using an axe and hoping none ofthe neighbours was watching...

yes there are. could be worse, we used to hang the turkeys upside down
from a tree and test the new swords on them. I am sure that they thought
we werre sacraficing to some pagan god or something, lolmargali

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